A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Fiat...

..."let it be done." So Lux Fiat means "let there be light." Lux Home, "let there be man," Fiat Voluntas Tua is "Thy Will be Done" with "will" meaning God's will. I am not 100% sure of this (not Christian), but I do remember learning Lux Fiat in Latin class because the teacher always said it when she came into the room and turned on her desk lamp. I guess she thought she was God

Anyway, followed a link from BookCrossing and now you have four readers.

54948 | posted by zmrzlina on February 23, 2003 at 21:29

Not so.

The Latin word "Homo" means "man" (as in Homo sapiens). "homo-" is a Greek word stem meaning "same" (as in homogeneous). Details are available at this dictionary.com page.

42831 | posted by readerman on September 21, 2002 at 15:37

Your latin <i>is</i> bad...

Homo does not mean "man" - it means "same".

41993 | posted by Pop on September 17, 2002 at 5:20